25.05.2011  RIA News

Lithuanian business is ready to participate in the construction of Baltic NPP in Kaliningrad region

According to the report of the representatives of Lithuanian business, made on Tuesday during the meeting with the Administration of Rosatom State Corporation and the plant under construction, Lithuanian enterprises are ready to take part in the construction of a number of social and infrastructure facilities at the construction of Baltic NPP in Kaliningrad region.

The construction of Baltic nuclear plant began in Neman district of the region on February 25, 2010. Now more than 600 people are involved in the construction, and by the end of the year the number of specialists will have been increased up to 1.5 thousand. A building estate designed for 10Х 000 people will be constructed in Neman city for the builders and powermen.

 ТThere are houses, infrastructure, kindergartens, I think, our company could work in this direction. A number of other companies possess experience that will help us jointly find common reliable and commonly advantageous economic and architectural and technical solutions for Baltic NPP infrastructureУ, President of Vetruna Lithuanian Company Vytautas Banis told the journalists.

Vetruna is included into top-3 Lithuanian largest enterprises in the field of construction services rendering and property management, and performs all the works on the buildings construction and reconstruction.

Rosatom State Corporation Deputy Director on Capital Construction Sergey Budylin noted that the corporation was ready for such an involvement of construction capacities as well as suppliers of separate types of construction equipment as well.

ТWe see some advantage in attraction of alternative suppliers, from the point of view of both reliability and probably the future prices. We have taken a decision of forming a permanent working group that would discuss not only political intentions, but also the specifics connected with the project documentation, technical decisions, the preparation of sitesУ, Budylin said.

He also reminded that the construction of Baltic NPP was the only e project in the history of Rosatom that the State Corporation was ready to perform together with foreign partners.

Baltic NPP is being constructed according to NPP-2006 project, the head units of which are being constructed at the site of Leningrad NPP-2 in Sosnovy Bor. The plant will consist if two power units. The estimated service life of Baltic NPP is 50 years and that of its equipment is 60 years. The first power unit commissioning is planned for 2016, the second one is planned to be commissioned in 2018. The plant is ???????? to provide Kaliningrad region with electric power and to supply power abroad.

Rosatom State Corporation joins over 250 enterprises and scientific organizations of the nuclear branch and is the largest generating company in Russia that provides the production of over 40% of electric power of the European part of the country.


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